Ahhh, the sweet taste of freedom.
This Volcanion shit is still going on? I already stated my qualms with dropping it previously, so I'm not going to type it up. I think with these slates, something more than "X drop/rise to Y" is necessary. We need explanations as to why you as the ranking team think these topics should be discussed. I don't think Volcanion should drop, yes it requires support, but that's why it's not S. It checks a large portion of the meta with Key pokemon in that list, has ridiculously spammable moves, and hurts everything in the tier, couple that with 30% chance to burn or poison and you've got a pretty sizable problem on your hands. It's FAR from easy to switch into. I already know what all the "agree" comments are going to say. Rocks, lack of recovery, and its checks, yes checks, being common. Give us more than just the nomination. You're the ranking team, clearly you're pushing for these to happen for a reason, lay it on us.
Ok if you honestly want a reason as to why Volc is on the slate it's because people here (you and I included) have been talking about it for probably about a month now. It's why everything that's on the slate is there, we've been talking about it and the Team wants to see more discussion on it before they make a decision, I don't see why they or anyone else should have to explain this lol. But let's focus more on your talk about Volc shall we: firstly, you saying that "requires support, but that's why it's not S" may be the stupidest and most condescending things I've ever read. You're basically saying "yeah all you guys in favor of Volc dropping have legit points but we're not talking about Clefable so fuck you," it's like me nomming Exploud to ranked and glancing over all the crippling flaws it haves and saying that it's only at D so they don't really matter. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, tho, your whole post is just you overselling Volc anyways. Saying it checks a "large portion of the meta" is ridiculous, it's only really checking water types and most, if not all, have a way to prevent it from switching in (Keldeo has Secret Sword, Suicune roars it out, hell even Azu, the mon Volc was hyped up for checking when it was first released, just knocks-off its Specs and makes it way easier to switch-into). It has good STAB moves for sure, but they're not the most spammable things in the world since both carry only 8 PP, meaning you can stall em out pretty easily. And Ik you probably don't care when people in favor of Volc dropping bring up its proneness to being worn down and its checks being common, but here's the problem: those are completely valid points and should be discussed when talking about whether Volc deserves to drop. If you want to ignore Volcanion's big, crippling flaws, be my guest, and more power to you. Just don't act like the Ranking Team needs to write you an essay on why they dare to add Volcanion to the slate, it's your job to make arguments about whether Volc should drop, not them.
As for the rest of the noms, here we go:
Manectric is a waste of a mega slot, plain and simple. Elecs not named Thundurus are real bad rn and as something that beats offense it's hopelessly outclassed by Lopunny who is stronger and has much better coverage. Also people who use Manec as a Birdspam check LUL
Still don't like the idea of Garde dropping since I think it can be really effective but yeah it really isn't as good as Pinsir or Gross and would be more at home in B+.
Don't wanna touch on Lati too much since I don't wanna get dragged into another flame war if it ever happens again but I never understood why you would want to waste a mega slot on it when you could easily use Latios, get the same defensive utility, and save your mega slot for something better like Scizor. Drop it.
Zam struggles too much in this meta, dies to priority and its niche as a breaker of offensive teams is kinda lost since the really frail HO teams it would do well against aren't as popular anymore. Not to mention it relies on Focus Blast to beat dark types LUL.
Fuck Venusaur, drop it. I said this a million times, please don't make me have to say it anymore
Don't care about Zapdos, thing should've stayed in UU IMO but its niche as a birdspam check can be huge, so I can agree with it rising to B.
Slowbro's more a meme mon than something I would seriously use, can be very hard to stop once it gets going but this goes for most CM sweepers anyways and if you're relying on crits to beat a CM sweeper then you probably already lost the match. Drop to B.
Abstaining from Daunt/Klefki, don't use them and I can see why they're effective but I wouldn't use either a ton and don't have enough experience with them as a result.
